the witch’s teachings- A fantasy story about a young man who begs a witch to teach him about the hidden parts of the world, learning that not all that lives in the dark needs to be killed.-Complete!
Wanderer’s Refuge-steampunky-era found family story about two girls persecuted for using magic to achieve their dreams of traveling the world, features a magic flying train that serves as a home for those with no home for themselves-No longer updating, couldn’t end it in a way I found satisfying :l
Cursed Kids-urban fantasy story about a group of teenagers who find out their parents created them to be “gods of magic” and basically tools for their families’ rise to power, they just want to be people and so run away to try and find who they are by themselves. Lots of coming-of-age stuff, familial trauma and found family. Updating about once every 1-2 weeks
You can also always look for the #original writing tag in my blog, for all my stories plus some oneshots and stuff
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John getting the idea of how to prank Past Karkat FROM present Karkat is super fucking funny. Also, Karkat calling John "perverse" for enjoying the trolling is several extra layers of funny in context. Karkat thinks the trolls are going to hate the kids forever, which is especially funny considering the entire rest of the comic...and Karkat in particular. This guy crushes on three different humans and seemingly canonically dates one, even outright ignoring post-canon which 100% confirms this. Karkat is also rather helpful, telling us about the Reckoning and what's going on.
Some long and interesting Hussie commentary is below the cut.
The first four lines Karkat says here literally sound like they could be a disgruntled Homestuck fan talking smack about me as they scan backwards through the story. Which sounds like a funny thing for me to say—and it is—but it's also not that remarkable, since at any given moment Homestuck is full of surrogates for various factions of the readership. Basically any character who is viewing the actions of other characters on a screen can be seen as a consumer of that story through some form of in-canon digital media. Whether they type in character commands like the exiles, or use Trollian to skip around the "archive" in a nonlinear way like the trolls do, for the sake of "adventure analysis" or to heap scorn on those involved, every narrative-viewing character is temporarily filling the role of the Homestuck reader from a certain angle. Later, cherubs become the ultimate distillation of the idea.
There's something kind of eerie about these stable time loops when it comes to the absurd, bitchy conversations the characters have with each other. There is literally no discernible origin to this prank John is playing. It's pasted to him from the future, he thinks it's a great prank, and he decides to play the prank in the future because of it, exactly as typed here. And yet, the whole exchange appears to be perfectly in character and in full alignment with their personalities. So entire exchanges between two individuals can be totally without origin, yet still sound exactly like them. This opens up a whole bunch of creepy possibilities. Ghosts or afterimages of their personalities seemingly can emerge from pure void in a convincing way, like bodiless simulacra. Echoing time loop mimic-wraiths, intruding on their conversations.
While I know about the Cherubs as a reflection of readership (Callie being a parody of Homestuck lovers and Caliborn of Homestuck haters), and the Alpha Trolls as a caricature of people (Porrim of feminists, Kankri of Tumblrinas, Horuss of systems, etc - a writing choice I'm not a fan of), I admittedly never thought of the Beta Trolls and exiles as fulfilling a similar purpose, albeit more subtly. The trolls often echo or mock our thoughts on what's going on in the story, and provide meta-commentary while still being IN the story.
And then there's commentation on the unsettling nature of time loops and, seemingly, dream bubbles. Stable time loops police characters into having perfectly replicated conversations with no origin, a deviation from which would get them all killed. Creepy shit.
Also, apparently, the concepts of Ancestors and the hemospectrum weren't present/fleshed out at this point. Also, this:
From my perspective, the great thing about this stupid backwards conversation was that any time someone wanted to know the answer to an obvious question, like "What's the point of the game?", and I didn't think it was time to reveal that info yet, I could just have this jerk say "I ALREADY TOLD YOU THAT" and justifiably be reluctant to repeat himself. But he would indulge in other details of lesser importance, like the material here about the Veil. He hasn't mentioned that yet, so he can take some time to cover it now. It's a totally organic and logical way of concealing critical story information so that it flows in an order of least critical to most critical.
This is genuinely clever. Hussie figured out how to prevent a forthcoming and helpful guy (Karkat) from simply revealing everything right away, and then also made it a fun gag.
Woman who hasn't been held in a decade: oh I'm pretty low maintenance, yeah honestly I think I'd find that overwhelming or something, can I just hold your hand instead? If that's okay of course?
Woman who feels ill at the notion of taking up space: yeah I can stand. Yeah honestly it's no biggie I like standing. Do you mind if I lean here? It's okay to say no.
Woman who would rather die than be considered selfish: I'm really sorry to ask I'm probably just being annoying but could I ask for another pillow? Yeah there isn't one in the room. Yeah no worries I can just bunch up some towels if needed.
Woman who's most outlandish and fantastical fantasies are a coffee date and seeing a movie with someone: oh I don't get out much. Yeah I don't really like being around people. I'm pretty much an introvert. Or something like that yeah.
Woman who would break down screaming and crying if someone showed even a hint of affection in person, who would fall apart at the seams if you held her still and asked her if she was okay, woman who if allowed too would wrap herself around you and sob and weep until she became severely dehydrated: oh yeah sorry I spaced out for a second there. Yeah I'm doing alright.
There is a notion that you can't love others unless you love yourself. But I have never struggled with loving others. And I have never been good at loving myself.
Others are beautiful, admirable, inspiring. I would gladly live for others, and I've done so many times before. To love others is quite natural, because they are so much more worthy of love than I am.
Myself, I don't think I can ever love unconditionally, the way I can love others.
So if the phrase isn't about literal ability, is it about morality? Am I not *allowed* to love others until I love myself?
But to deprive me of the ability to love until I have been corrected... I am to live in isolation, then, because I cannot love myself. What cruel doctrine.
Some of us simply have no love for ourselves. All our love is pointed outward. Is that so wrong? Is that a crime worthy of banishment?
Maybe I'd be able to love myself if self-hatred wasn't so despised.
my favourite video game character archetype is 'weird guy with no clear investment in the plot who follows you around being vaguely helpful but mostly cryptic and rude'
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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past ‘dresses are for women and pants are for men.’ i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we’ve made
“We’re in danger of losing what the entire second wave of feminism, what the entire second wave of women’s liberation was built on, and that was ‘Biology is not destiny’. ‘One is not born a woman,’ Simone de Beauvoir said, ‘one becomes one’. Now there’s some place where transsexual women and other women intersect. Biological determinism has been used for centuries as a weapon against women, in order to justify a second-class and oppressed status. How on Earth, then, are you going to pick up the weapon of biological determinism and use it to liberate yourself? It’s a reactionary tool.”
— Quote by Leslie Feinberg, from TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, issue 7, volume 1. 1995.
im just so happy i live in a time period where actual meaningful biological transition is possible. even if we lose rights or the ability to exist in public, nothing can turn back the clock on that, and just by having any sort of access to that our lives are made immensely better. millions of our sisters throughout history would never have dreamed of a day where they could have what HRT does for us.
please don't lose the plot of this. if you're a trans person on HRT you're a living miracle, the dream of hundreds of millions of your ancestors. your lives are all deeply meaningful no matter what anyone says.
Cursed be the one who announced to my father:
“It’s a boy!"...
...How could he twist the course of the stars so much?
How could he have erred so in his astrology?
A lying tongue, a fool’s mouth it had given him
For he foolishly transformed justice to poison
He altered the law and transposed the lines
Oh, but had the artisan who made me created me instead – a worthy woman...
...I would say "how lucky am I"
Father in heaven
who did miracles for our ancestors with fire and water...
...Who would then transform me from a man to woman?
Were I only to have merited this being so graced by goodness...
What shall I say?
why cry or be bitter?
If my father in heaven has decreed upon me
and has maimed me with an immutable deformity
then I do not wish to remove it.
the sorrow of the impossible is a human pain that nothing will cure
and for which no comfort can be found.
So, I will bear and suffer until I die and wither in the ground.
Since I have learned from our tradition
that we bless both, the good and the bitter
I will bless in a voice hushed and weak:
blessed are you [HaShem] who has not made me a woman.
Hey, remember me? We spawned into beginner village together! You reclassed to Archmage? That’s awesome, don’t you have to get to like, level 60 for that? …Huh? Oh, haha, well, no not really, you know how it is with us village kids. Dropped out of the main questline like, way back. I just sort of play to fish, I’m not very good at combat. I’m doing okay for myself though, I caught a Sea Bass the other day that sold for 10g! Oh, um, sorry, didn’t mean to— no, it’s okay, i get it, daily dungeons are like, super important. It was really nice to see you again
Heyyyy, it's me again! Oh, the dungeon? Yeah, no, it was fine. Pretty standard, and my friends are pretty good at them so it didn't take too long. Sorry for just running off like that, it's just the paladin becomes kinda preachy when we're late for things... Hey, I, Uh... Wanted to ask you a favour if you don't mind? I have been woefully neglecting my fishing skill tree. Like I'm SO bad at it. And there's this thing happening, and I need a special fish for it, and I was hoping... No, no, I don't need you to *do* anything I was just hoping for some pointers? 'Cause it's pretty far away and all... Oh, you do like travel? Just not having to fight? Oh. That's... Oh. Okay. Um... Did you want to... Go to the festival? With me?
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my knight you have to live you have to get up you have to put your hand over your wound and hold it there. you have to keep walking and walking and walking because you cannot lay down yet, it’s not time. wipe the blood off your breastplate and look up into the sun. lean on your sword if you need to. lift one foot after another. get up. get up. this would be a pitiful grave.
holding back an amused "I love you" after someone makes a really good personal comment or joke is like making the move for your sheathed blade and stopping midway through
personally, i get much more out of the idea that i am still worth something despite being fundamentally broken, than i get from being told that i'm "not" broken or that i can "stop" being broken. i already know what i am, and i know that what i am isn't going to change. when someone tries to argue otherwise i just know they're not interested in who i am. they only care about some imagined better version of me they have in their head.
I am never going to be anything more than what I am. this sad, wild animal. nobody's ever going to fix me. and nobody's ever going to tame me. I'm not interested in entertaining people's ideas of what they think I could be. I only want to be around people who can appreciate the me that actually exists. those who can love a roughed-up-looking stray cat without trying to collar her and change her.
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